February 2012
17 posts
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Minka →
Fifteen minutes of beauty:
A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.
My first Kickstarter participation has reached fruition. I couldn’t be happier for Davina, her cast (Yoshihiro Takishita-san), and her crew. This is such a lovely, moving, inspiring film.
Watch it.
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Peter Weyland at TED2023: 'I Will Change the... →
A TEDTalk from the future as envisioned by Ridley Scott & Damon Lindelof. A real anticipation-booster for Scott’s upcoming film Prometheus.
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Why Don't We Remember Anything from When We're... →
Questions and answers like these are why I love Reddit.
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Why Not Draft Bills In Public? →
Fred Wilson:
When an important piece of legislation is drafted in secrecy, such that Senators and their staff members don’t even know what is going to be in it, and then is put out for voting on a very fast track, people are going to be suspicious. And suspicious citizens don’t make for a healthy democracy.
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'But Facts – Like What Time the Sun Rises – Are... →
Thank you EFF.
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Big Numbers →
We are looking to hire for a lot of roles right now. There are three in particular I’d like to call out to this website’s smart, good-looking audience:
Web Frontend Engineer
Engineering Manager
Data Scientist
Over 1.2 million websites. 70 million users. Disqus is the largest Django application and one of the largest pure Python implementations on the web. If you like big numbers...
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Ouchier? →
Erik Wemple, for the Washington Post:
The ouch gets ouchier as the blog post quotes a blogger John Gruber from Daring Fireball .
How quickly was this article written? (Yes that’s a space before the period.)
Read Gruber’s piece, Mountain Lion, instead. It is worth the read.
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10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy →
Read this to write better.
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'When You Love Doing Something, Nobody Can Stop... →
Just discovered this year-old Japan Times interview with Yoshitaka Amano, the man responsible for some of the most unforgettable art in video game history. Exhibit A. Exhibit B.
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A History of Backups
In twenty years I went from not understanding the value of backups to evangelizing backups to never needing to back up my data again.
Let me explain.
Twenty years ago I never backed up my data.
Fifteen years ago I was making weekly backups of my data. I had gotten the hacker bug — I was building computers and enrolling in every technology course available. As with most hackers I desired...
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Not-So-Hidden Costs →
Yearly Comcast subscription: $1030.92. Yearly Netflix + Hulu subscriptions: $191.76. Difference: $839.16.
So the question is: how much will you miss that $840?
(Via the Future Journalism Project.)
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First Lady Michelle Obama Plays Tug of War with... →
I’m pro-tug of war.
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Who Watches the Watchmen? →
It’s looking more and more like employees from VEVO, the music video website jointly owned by Sony, Universal, and Abu Dhabi Media, pirated an NFL game at their own event at Sundance. Jason Kincaid’s piece is worth reading in its entirety.
Via MG:
Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally. This is the actual root cause of piracy online. It’s not...
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Today in a Nutshell →
For me, watching sports — Superbowl or otherwise — is good for usually two things: another excuse to spend time with friends + hot dogs/nachos.
Go Piggers!
BONUS UPDATE: The Simpsons’ classic take on the Superbowl.
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'I Haven’t been Drunk in 3 Years… And I’ve Been... →
Link bait-y title, heart-warming tale.
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Cathedral 1, Bricklayers 0 →
What’s your favourite parable?
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Henry Miller's 11 Commandments →
Brilliance:
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
(Via Amanda Nudelman.)